Established in 1993 and now published every two months, each issue of History Ireland features  a wide variety of topics, from the earliest times to the present day, giving a sense of the distant past while offering a contemporary edge. Every article is illustrated with photographs, maps or paintings to provide a vivid impression of the topic.  

November/October  2024.

Volume 32  No. 6

 From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

       The Military History Society of Ireland after 75 years

       Lar Joye

       Arthur Leared (1822–79) commemorated

       Brian Smyth 

       ON THIS DAY

       Aodhán Crealey

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

       Donal Fallon 

LETTERS

       The killing of Michael Caudy, 16 May 1923

       George Petrie

       Tone’s death

       Demos’s bread

       Pocket battleship?

PLATFORM:

       Durrow High Cross and the ongoing saga of public access

       Michael Byrne  

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

       Newbridge House, Donabate, Fingal 

       Damian Murphy

KINDRED LINES: 

       Ordnance Survey Memoirs

       Fiona Fitzsimons

ARTEFACTS:

       Ireland’s first (partly wooden) jet plane

       Lar Joye

IFI FILM EYE:

       Christmas traditions alive today

       Anna Rose Garvey 

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

       The papers of Dr John F. Keenan

       Martin Morris

100 YEARS AGO:

       Merger of Irish railways into the Great Southern Railway Company

       Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

  REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

       The cable that changed the world

       Brian Trench

FILM WATCH:

       Horizon: an American Saga, Chapter 1

       David Murphy

WHAT’S ON STAGE:

       Agreement

       Sylvie Kleinman

MUSEUM EYE:

       An Túr Gloine: Artists and the Collective, National Gallery of Ireland

       Donal Fallon 

Bookworm

       Daragh Fitzgerald

The Big Book

       Johnston, Crooks and Murtagh (eds), Analecta Hibernica No. 53. Special issue—The fire of 1922

       By Catriona Crowe

Book Reviews

       Ó Cionnaith, The origin of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey

       By Patrick J. Duffy

       Horner, Mapping south Kerry: 450 years of a changing landscape

       By Thomas O’Loughlin

       O’Donoghue and Purcell (eds), John Redmond and Irish parliamentary traditions

       By Dermot Meleady

       Jackson, United kingdoms: multinational union states in Europe and beyond, 1800–1925

       By Brian Girvin

  FEATURES

INVASION:

       The arrival of King Henry II in Waterford

       Damien McLellan

SYMBOLS OF SOVEREIGNTY:

       Donnchad mac Briain, Henry II and the crown of Ireland

       Jesse Harrington<